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This city earned the nicknames "The Athens of the South" and "Music City, USA."
What is Nashville, TN?
The practice of the record industry to appeal to various regional and ethnic groups.
What are race records?
Cool Jazz was developed as a reaction to this Jazz subgenre which took its name from improvisatory "scat" singing.
What is bebop?
This country music icon was nick-named "the man in black."
Who is Johnny Cash?
The "One Step" was recorded by this band at Victor Studios in New York in 1917, making the first jazz record.
What is the Original Dixieland Jazz Band?
This city can be considered the birthplace of "Jazz."
What is New Orleans?
This radio variety show preceded the Grand Ole Opry.
What is the National Barn Dance?
This subgenre featured dance music and originated in Texas as a counterpart to bands in the Northeast.
What is Western Swing?
This Jazz legend was known as the "Ambassador for Jazz" because of his extensive world tours with his orchestra.
Who is Duke Ellington?
The Child Ballads were named after Francis James Child, whose eight-volume collection drew from ballads from England and this country.
What is Scotland?
The first radio station in the south was broadcast from this city.
What is Atlanta, Georgia?
This publishing firm was formed by two country music legends, had connections to ASCAP and BMI, and attracted talent to Nashville.
What is Acuff-Rose?
This subgenre developed in establishments that sprang up during the oil boom in Texas during the 1930s.
What is honky-tonk?
This singing cowboy popularized the "Cowboy Code."
Who is Gene Autry?
This song was originally written by Nine Inch Nails and famously covered by an elder Johnny Cash.
What is "Hurt?"
In the Jim Crow South, songsters like Robert Johnson and Charlie Patton traveled between juke joints and developed an early blues style named after this major river.
What is the Mississippi Delta?
Muddy Waters helped create Chicago Blues and was the biggest star of this label that specialized in Rhythm & Blues and was founded in the late 1940s by a couple of Chicago bar owners.
What is Chess Records?
This subgenre incorporated rock & pop styles, as practiced by Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, and the Dave Matthews Band.
What is Jazz Fusion?
This legendary singer is known as the "First Lady of Song."
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
This popular song by Dave Brubeck is an example of cool jazz and features an unusual time signature.
What is "Take 5?"
Ralph Peer was the producer for famous recording sessions featuring Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family, Alfred G. Karnes, Blind Alfred Reed, and others, earning this city the title of the "birthplace of country music."
What is Bristol, Tennessee?
In the late 1950s, Chet Atkins became the head of this company's Nashville division, leading to such success that Decca Records signed Patsy Cline in order to compete.
What is Radio Corporation of America (RCA)?
This production style created a more commercial, polished sound, exemplified by Chet Atkins, Jim Reeves, and Patsy Cline. The smooth vocals and string sections would find a contrast in "Outlaw Country."
What is the "Nashville Sound?"
This legendary performer's Wild West shows helped to create an almost mythological idea of the American West.
Who is Buffalo Bill Cody?
This song was written by Dolly Parton as a farewell "gift" when she left The Porter Wagner Show. The song was later covered for a film soundtrack by another legendary performer.
What is "I Will Always Love You?"